10 books similar to 50 Days Before My Suicide

Is life worth living if there is no meaning in life? If this is a life where no one needs you – neither your father (cheats on your mother), nor your mother (disowns you and drinks heavily), not even your grandmother (finds a twenty-five-year-old guy as her husband). Gloria keeps a diary, and within 50 days manages to live a bright, eventful life. The conclusions of the girl are sad – a life is not worth continuing. Gloria commits suicide… but only to start a new one, no doubt different from the old one.

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10 13 reasons why. Jay Asher

Why do teenagers die? Why do they decide that death is the only way out of trouble? Hormones? Teen crisis? Bullying? Feeling lonely?

Jay Asher tells us the story of Hannah Baker, who unfortunately ends her life for real. After her death, Hanna leaves behind a map and audio tapes in which she talks about her reasons why. Cassettes are received only by those people who have become these reasons.

9. The perks of Being a Wallflower. Stephen Chbosky

The main character Charlie likes to read books. His favorites are To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye, whose main character Charlie is often compared to. The guy keeps a diary, and turning to a mysterious friend, he shares not so much the events of the difficult life of a teenager, but his feelings and thoughts, his loneliness, his weakness and invisibility. Charlie carefully tastes the world: he takes the death of his aunt Helen hard, his first love, comes across drugs, makes and loses friends.

8. I would choose life. Thierry Cohen

Victoria unexpectedly breaks off relations with Jeremy on his birthday, and the protagonist decides to commit suicide. But in the morning he wakes up alive and cannot understand what happened, because his Victoria is next to him. Trying to figure out what happened, Jeremy searches for answers to questions, each time waking up a year after his suicide. His life is no longer his. Jeremy can only watch how his life goes on, changing him, year after year. Maybe he really should have chosen life over pills?

7. You are not to blame. Jennifer Niven

Theodore Finch has a new novel. The novel is not out of the ordinary – he has a deep relationship with one unusual lady. He thinks about her constantly, relentlessly inventing new and new ways to see her. The name of the mysterious lady is Death. He is stopped by Violet, who decides to jump off the school bell tower. Finch dissuades the girl and invites her to show life from its pleasant side, finding new and new joys every day. Will Lady Death forgive his betrayal? We’ll see.

6. Alice’s diary. Beatrice Sparks

A very honest book written from the perspective of a teenage girl. The name of the girl is nowhere to be found, but it is known that she is exploring the world using drugs. Like all teenagers, it is unbearable for her to think that she merges into a gray mass of ordinary people who “think the same and buy the same”. She dreams of her parents talking to her, talking to her, not lecturing her. Drugs seem to a teenager a pass to an unusual bright world. What turns out this brightness and unusualness in reality? Alice’s journey down the rabbit hole – back and forth – that’s what this book is about.

5. Stay with me. Amy Zhang

Liz Emerson, a well-known selfish, venomous and merciless, has no one to hate but herself. After the death of her father, her life turns into a local branch of hell – she does what she wants, causes suffering to people, she would be glad to stop, but she cannot. The heroine is seriously occupied with the causal relationships of life, she has a chance to look at her life from a completely different perspective. True, for this she will have to organize her own death in a car accident.

4. Catcher in the rye. Jerome David Salinger

The cult American novel of the second half of the twentieth century tells us about the life of Holden Caulfield, who is being treated in a clinic. Like all teenagers, Holden is looking for his own meaning of life, different from the meaning of the life of his parents and other adults. They seem to him hypocritical and flat, inanimate. Holden is expelled from school for poor progress, he quarrels with friends, talks about the meaning of life, and decides to escape, from which his younger sister Phoebe dissuades him.

3. Looking for Alaska. John Green

Alaska Young is the name of the girl in search of which lives “Fat Man” Miles Hotter. He moves from a home where he had no friends to a boarding high school in Alabama. In a new life, he makes friends, but everything turns out to be not so simple at all – impudent “weekends” (children who are allowed to go to their parents for the weekend) rule the ball in the boarding school. Miles’ own prank turns into a war with vacationers, and the first love ends in the tragic death of Alaska, whom Miles himself helps to escape from the boarding school.

2. A touch of love. Jonathan Coe

Eternal graduate student Robin Grant pretends to write his dissertation. In fact, he is trying to sort out the love that once happened to him. Rather, she touched – the girl he fell in love with became the wife of his friend. Robin writes stories, trying to understand the mystical essence of love, in himself, in the world around him, as well as in the most important question – does he want to love someone again. Or he just needed… a touch of love.

1. Paper cities. John Green

“Paper people live in paper houses and heat them with their own future. Paper kids are drinking beer bought for them by some bum in a paper deli. And everyone is obsessed with how to get more junk. And the junk is all thin and mortal, like paper. And people are the same.”

Quentin is in love with his neighbor Margo. And Margo is in love with her paper cities and her secrets, such a love triangle. After Margo disappears, Quentin organizes a search for her. The girl’s clues that she leaves come to the rescue, and Quentin, as well as his friends, get the opportunity to find out the real Margo, not paper.